FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 711, 10 July 1929, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

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“THE LOOK-OUT MAN.

THE TOLLY FARMED in Aaddasd •aras z Canadian, "Farmer” Vance. .Picor jr luz-rd v?®* **' pic -■: -• R rc-i-u b ox rA.-e &alz A T T q-vicZTj dcrr.-i - . —c ~ Hcnc I v:*yri: **sjr yrciY f*XT - Herr c r&z of grrif& Hd f -c-J* cl*-cr w . . vr’Uk t*i» seetHi-g IVb c C42 ec.~HC'ZgiCXi.TB *£&&€. «.■ ffSTfIV ■ C. - A : . Yo: ter- me the i%~rzc fef rpyw,. / jwrr/er -he m&ee--7 - : . ’ * ... Ctk trusty FTyrm*? Mwe Wormierz’ *c«rfc is «o«f. . . time i> sw. <rs-ci Place My herd %-pca the piemgr j?pcrf m.e bxt c % c et’.s.a glcxec. A *rd JTT. ?«•»? ■ 7 i*. a t\t c-vr U-f ci r«y .Utt.- F««" T TOMEBOA the :-erpe: t Pret'y ladie= sees: to nave a iair ranse of 'ooz coTerin? a: ’•.heir disposal these day-. Mere man has to be content if he can rustle Tip a shred or tiro of canvas for beach vear in summer, an honest piece of cowhide to keep out the moisture, and a nice line of felt for the Ion? evenings. But woman—she parades rn all the a-lory of a mixed zoological baa. Girls v’ao will sprint a furious: at sight of a fwo-ineh sand lizard will wear a line of speckled lizard skin with the ntmost equanimity. The wilder the beast, the better she Likes its hide. Shoes of crocodile skin are greatly favoured, and the lesser snakes are in the mode. But even allowing for the upward movement of this trend, it was a shock to see in a Queen Street window a sample labelled "real Python.” Great snakes, what next? -OU VENIRE In a moment of almost reckless munificence, a Taranaki local body has rewarded its chairman for unsold f years of service by presenting him with an illuminated address and an enlarged photograph of himself. On such occasions it is not the gift that counts, so much as the spirit thereof, but this deponent always feels that if ever he earns the gratitude cf felicwmen he wouldn't care for an enlarged photograph of himself to figure among the acknowledgments thereof. The whole question is one for which regrettably few guiding principles have been laid down, but even if the beneficiary treasures the photograph in his declining years, his descendants invariably thrust it oat into a back, room, and there's an end to it. As for illuminated addresses.. the main i ‘.rouble is that they can rarely be Iread. They are printed that way. Apparently the main reason for the; popularity of illuminated addresses is i that they afford the donnors an excuse for getting lit up themselves. the grazier: ] "Come to Auckland and keep a goat.” That sounds a very good slogan that might profitably be adopted by one of ; our more enterprising local bodies. Here and there about the city and suburbs are backyards or other open spaces wherein goats graze contentI edly. There is the notable example of an oil company's compound, where a goat is kept permanently employed ,to keep down the herbage round the i tanks, thus reducing the summer fire risk. There is also an acquaintance i who keeps a goat for mil king pur- ! poses, and another who manages to ' run a cow in the heart of a populous suburb. With rare lapses, the devoted beast has kept his household in milk for seven years. It is not suggested that a goat could oblige to that extent, but goat-farming at least has this advantage—that a reasonable goat can scratch an existence from places that would reduce a cow to starvation. Some goats can eke out a living on a rubbish dump. If the milk tastes of salmon or Hawaiian pineapples, so much, the better. SETT LIGHTS The Power Board has with becoming modesty agreed to surrender its immediate claim for a beacon on the I new Queen Street building. One I guiding reason is that the new Civic Theatre is also to have a beacon, but it has not yet been determined whether the Power Board felt it would be j unwise for it, too, to be theatrical, or whether it cast a wise and cautious eye toward the possibility that the prospect of a rival might cause the Civic Theatre people to abandon their plan, thus cutting off a handsome prospective demand for power. It is something,^at any rate, that the eightstorey monument to our progress is 'to be illuminated by floodlights at night. There is thus no danger that the P.B. light may be hidden under a bushel, and the old horse will continue to run. under the old colours. Tt is by j Brighter Auckland out of Self-Esteem.